Guided Discovery Fits Development of Kids I can remember taking a PE Theory class in college and the concept of Guided Discovery was taught. It is one concept that impacted my teaching and coaching more than any other. If you watch youngsters play, you will see they are in a constant state of discovering something […]
The Third Voice Gets Players In Trouble! What’s the third voice? It’s that voice that bellows from the stands at games and pecks at the susceptible brain of a young player in their homes. The third voice seemingly has the answers the coach can’t come up with. But make not mistake about it, the third
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Reality or Perception? In all areas of coaching (sport skill or training), it is so important to actually see and know what occurs versus going off perceptions and current ideas that are driven from coaches comments. Far too often we do not perform our own in-depth visual assessments and watch what actually occurs when an
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In my first few years of college and during my student teaching, I clearly remember being told by my teachers to always break down skills into smaller parts so students could understand how to build the skill in their minds. For the first couple years I followed that concept. I wasn’t really sure why because
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Over the past years I have been blessed to visit colleges and spend time with their strength and conditioning staff working on multi-directional speed concepts, strategies and techniques. We have had great success in building successful approaches. The area I want to impact at the college level is the Physical Education, Exercises Science, Health and
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There are hundreds and hundreds of different acceleration drills you could choose from to improve starting and acceleration quickness, but I have one that creates great results… Acceleration Drill – Band Resisted 3 Cone Read & React: 1. Each athlete has a band around their waist; a band with the appropriate resistance for each one.
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Lateral Shuffle Drills The exercises below are great for building lateral shuffle motor programming. 1. Resisted Step Outs- Band on lower leg (leg furthest from attachment) – aggressively step out with just the furthest leg. This trains the inside leg to create positive push off angles and how to use the hips to create lateral
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Basketball Handling Skills Having been involved with basketball for roughly 40 years I can honestly say the most important skill for a young player to develop is the ability to handle the basketball. Yes, shooting is important and each young player should learn how to shoot and score, but if you can’t move around the
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Do You Want Success Or To Have It Your Way? Oftentimes, coaches get caught up in having everything done their way. They have no flexibility or willingness to allow their athletes to do things differently. This can become an issue on a team, especially when the athlete is correct. Let’s take a minute and examine
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Here is an example of how to segment and progress an acceleration program. Acceleration Program Outline The chart below outlines the different linear acceleration phases and gives some examples of exercises in that phase. As you can see, I always start by teaching and developing the pattern. Next, I increase force production of that pattern
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